scholarly journals The Role of Region-Specific Institutionalized Cultural Characteristics on Income Inequality in the American South: The Case of Georgia’s Plantation Belt

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Levemier
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
American South ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
The American South

Dying to Eat

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American South ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Korean Chinese ◽  
The American South

In Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife, Candi K. Cann examines the role of food in dying, death, bereavement, and the afterlife. The coeditors seek to illuminate on the intersection of food and death in various cultures as well as fill an overlooked scholarly niche. Dying to Eat offers a multi-cultural perspective from contributors examining Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Latin American, European, Middle Eastern and American rituals and customs surrounding death and food. The contributors discuss a wide array of topics, including the role of death in the Islamic Sufi approach to food, the intersection of Buddhism, Catholicism, and Shamanism, as well as the role of casseroles and church cookbooks in the American South. The collection will provide not only food for thought on the subject of death and afterlife, but also theories, methods, recipes, and instructions on how and why food is used in dying, death, mourning, and afterlife rituals and practices in different cultural and religious contexts.

Black, Slave, Woman—The Role of Slave Women in the Ante-bellum South

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-154
Author(s):  
Chin Yu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Black Women ◽  
American South ◽  
The United States ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Antebellum South ◽  
Slave Women ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The American South

There is a famous Chinese proverb which says “a good man never fights with a woman.” From the viewpoint of this Chinese custom, women should always be respected. This maxim certainly was never applied to Black women in the Ante-bellum south of the United States prior to the Civil War. The intent of this paper is to bring to the attention of the reader some of the inhumanity practiced on slave women when they were required to work, without pay, on the plantations in the American South before that country’s Civil War. The women learned quickly to “respect” the “lash” which beat them if they did not do their work properly, or sassed their master. Slavery, at its best, is a terrible institution, and this paper does not address the subject of slavery in other parts of the world. This study is designed to study the plight of Black women, and their struggles, in that time of supposed Southern “gentility.” This study will also attempt to provide an insight into the work and family life of Black women in the era of the Antebellum South.

Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf ◽  
Ken Fones-Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
American South ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Evangelical Protestantism ◽  
Congress Of Industrial Organizations ◽  
Industrial Organizations ◽  
Southern Religion ◽  
Union Activists ◽  
The American South

In 1946, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) undertook Operation Dixie, an initiative to recruit industrial workers in the American South. This book explores the CIO's fraught encounter with the evangelical Protestantism and religious culture of southern whites. The book's nuanced look at working-class religion reveals how laborers across the surprisingly wide evangelical spectrum interpreted their lives through their faith. Factors like conscience, community need, and lived experience led individual preachers to become union activists and mill villagers to defy the foreman and minister alike to listen to organizers. As the book shows, however, all sides enlisted belief in the battle. In the end, the inability of northern organizers to overcome the suspicion with which many evangelicals viewed modernity played a key role in Operation Dixie's failure, with repercussions for labor and liberalism that are still being felt today. Identifying the role of the sacred in the struggle for southern economic justice, and placing class as a central aspect in southern religion, the book provides new understandings of how whites in the region wrestled with the options available to them during a crucial period of change and possibility.

Introduction

God with Us ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ansley L. Quiros
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
American South ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
The American South ◽  
Lived Theology ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Theological Conflict

This chapter lays out a historiography of the role of religion in the civil rights struggle and introduces the concept of lived theology. It describes the book’s setting in Americus, Georgia and the special role that town played in the conflict over racial justice in the American South. The Introduction argues that to truly understand the theological conflict inherent in the racial struggle, scholars must engage ideas, arguments and tactics as they existed in community.

scholarly journals World War II and the Industrialization of the American South

2017 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 1048-1082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Jaworski
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
American South ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Capital Deepening ◽  
Manufacturing Activity ◽  
The American South ◽  
Big Push

When private incentives are insufficient, a big push by government may lead to industrialization. This article uses mobilization for WWII to test the big push hypothesis in the context of postwar industrialization in the American South. Specifically, I investigate the role of capital deepening at the county level using newly assembled data on the location and value of wartime investment. Despite a boom in manufacturing activity during the war, the evidence is not consistent with differential postwar growth in counties that received more investment. This does not rule out positive effects of mobilization on firms or sectors, but a decisive role for wartime capital deepening in the South's postwar industrial development should be viewed more skeptically.

Funeral Food as Resurrection in the American South

Dying to Eat ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Graham
Keyword(s):  
Southern Baptist ◽  
American South ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Compelling Argument ◽  
The American South

Joshua Graham writes on the role of funeral foods in the American South, examining how these foods function in helping Southerners come to terms with their grief, in light of theabsent deceased. He examines the role of several foods and drinks (particularly the absence of alcohol) common in Southern Baptist culture in funeral repasts, and questions the lack of current American scholarship on “continuing bonds theory” in American grieving customs. Graham makes a compelling argument for its application in his chapter, while offering the reader a richly textured ethnography of contemporary American funeral feasts.

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